But it just comes down to trying to get the work out there and however the team fits together then that's the way it sort of plays into itself.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that’s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.

We are always just trying to be strong and yet in touch with our bodies and the only way you can really do that is to believe in yourself because that’s all that you have.

Painting is a hobby for me.

And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.

I get a kick out of cursing people for life on Sundays.

Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

I would love to go on MasterChef. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.

scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.